Looking at the eldest uncle and the second uncle who were obviously led astray by his father, Lin Yuanqiu thought of something else.
Didn't his father bring those banknotes with him?
I have to say that the person who knows dad best is his son, who can guess right.
After setting the date for his release, apart from busying himself with arrangements at home, the only thing left for Lin Sanzhu to do was to think about the banknotes buried underground. There were tens of thousands of taels, and he didn't want to leave them for too long. Otherwise, if a thief comes one day, I won't be able to find a place to go even if I cry.
Originally, Lin Sanzhu planned to go to the bank to exchange for a few large denominations, but he was afraid that the owners of the bank would know the emperor. If he took so many banknotes, they would check and find out that he was Lin Xiuzuan's father. That would be troublesome.
Finally, after thinking about it for several days, Lin Sanzhu simply wrapped all the banknotes in cloth, tied them to his body and took them directly to Saibei.
Faced with the gaze cast by his dog, Lin Sanzhu pretended not to notice, walked quickly to the carriages at the back, and directed the servants to carry their luggage.
The son actually asked him to leave the banknote where he was, so he wouldn't be so stupid.
When he heard that the postman came to report that Master Zhizhou was coming, Liu Yicheng hurried out to greet him.
Since receiving the report from the imperial court that a new magistrate of Yongning Prefecture would come to take office, the post station had made preparations to welcome him. Take out and wash the bedding, clean the house, and make everything fresh inside and out. Although I don’t know whether Xinzhizhou will stay at the inn, the preparations are essential.
When he saw Lin Yuanqiu, who was dressed in blue official uniform, Liu Yicheng knew that this person was the new Lord Zhizhou, and hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "I'm here to see you, Lord Zhizhou!"
Lin Yuanqiu has already planned the style route he should take next. That means not talking too much, not procrastinating things, and not doing things. Especially the point of "not talking too much". It is said that talking too much will lead to mistakes. It won't take long for a person who talks too much to figure out his temperament, and it will also be very difficult for him to understand. It's easy for people to guess what's in your mind.
And as a young novice local magistrate, it is still necessary to maintain the dignity he deserves.
Therefore, Lin Yuanqiu didn't say much to Liu Yicheng's salute at this moment, except for nodding to signal the other party to excuse him.
Shangguan's appearance made Liu Yicheng feel a little confused for a moment. He didn't expect Lord Zhizhou to look young but majestic. No wonder he could reach the fifth rank of officialdom at such a young age.
Thinking of this, Liu Yicheng became cautious again. When he saw Lord Zhizhou stepping forward, he quickly followed him.
Liu Yicheng planned to give instructions to his postmen later so that they could do their jobs well.
It was the first time for the Lin family to see Lin Yuanqiu in such an official and majestic manner, and they were surprised and full of pride at the same time.
Lin Sanzhu, in particular, was filled with pride when he saw how respectful and careful Yi Cheng was towards his Yuanqiu family.
As for Zhong Rong, after seeing his son-in-law's performance, he suddenly had the idea in his mind that "his son-in-law could easily do the job for a first-class official."
After dinner, the women took the children back to their rooms to wash up and rest. Lin Yuanqiu also returned to the room with Zhong Yurou, and left all the next matters to his father, uncle, second uncle, and cousin to discuss.
Now that the person has been delivered, the escort trip of the escorts has been successfully completed. After tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, they will naturally return to Beijing.
The same is true for the coachmen, but they want to wait in the city for a few days to see if there are any guests in Yongning City who want to hire a carriage to go to the capital or from the prefectures along the way. Otherwise, they will have to go back with an empty carriage after traveling thousands of miles. I feel a little pity.
Lin Sanzhu followed his son's words and paid off the remaining fare and escort fees.
In addition, each person was given a red envelope as a thank you for their hard work along the way.
The bodyguard, the driver, and the driver all thanked him profusely.
Lin Yuanfeng and Lin Yuansong gave some of the remaining pickled rabbits and chickens to the bodyguard and the others to eat as food on their way back.
When Lin Jipan went out, Lin Sanzhu took back all the goods in the store and did not give them to shopkeeper Jin together with the shop. There are dozens of them. I brought them all with me when I went north to take office this time. I think it will take some time to eat them, but this thing won't go bad for a while, just steam it slowly and eat it.
…
Zhong Yurou's belly has begun to have fetal movements. Although she is still young and cannot feel it many times, she is always caught by Lin Yuanqiu once or twice. The joy at that moment cannot be described in words.
Seeing her husband touching her belly with tenderness in his eyes, Zhong Yurou couldn't help but ask, "Does your husband prefer a daughter or a son?"
Lin Yuanqiu said without hesitation, "Daughter!"
After he came to his senses, he hurriedly added, "As long as it's our child, whether it's a daughter, a son, my husband likes it."
Zhong Yurou, on the other hand, has not yet recovered from her initial daze.
She heard her husband calling his belly Bao'er every day, and thought he was calling his son. She never thought that Bao'er was actually a nickname given to his daughter.
"Tomorrow you, your mother, and your grandmother will all stay at the inn. When your husband's place is settled, we will come to pick you up." Lin Yuanqiu talked about tomorrow's arrangements.
Zhong Yurou nodded. She had just taken out her husband's official robe and ironed it flat with a fire iron. She could put it on directly tomorrow morning.
Thinking that there were still many things to be busy with tomorrow, the couple also took a break at almost midnight because they chatted very late.
…
Under normal circumstances, before officials of rank five or above go to the place where they are assigned, the imperial court will send envoys to arrive at the place in advance to make announcements. The envoy must know the official personally, and then when the official arrives at the place, the envoy will come forward to identify the true and false and see if there is a replacement.
In addition, there is the fish talisman. There is a fish-shaped talisman in the fish bag Lin Yuanqiu wears. It is made of silver, but only half of it is. As for the other half, it is in the hands of the messenger. When the time comes, Lin Yuanqiu only needs to take out the fish charm and combine it with the other piece to verify his true identity.
Therefore, it was impossible for an official to be robbed and killed by robbers on the way, and then the bandits pretended to be the official and went to take office. In the Jing Dynasty, it was impossible to happen.
After having breakfast, Lin Yuanqiu was ready to go to the Zhizhou Yamen Office. Going together were Lin Sanzhu, Lin Dazhu and Lin Erzhu, Zhong Rong and his son, as well as Lin Yuanfeng and Lin Yuansong, as well as Lin Yuanbai and Lin Yuanhuai.
Originally, several bodyguards wanted to follow them, but Lin Yuanqiu all stayed behind to guard the inn.
He remembers what happened in Duzhi County. Although this is not Dinghu County, he can be careful not to make any big mistakes. In a strange place, it is definitely right to pay more attention.
When the carriage arrived outside the city gate, Lin Yuanqiu got out of the carriage. Next, he planned to walk into the city, so that he could check out the scene in the city along the street.
Perhaps because it was located at the border fortress, Lin Yuanqiu found that the city walls here were slightly higher than those he had seen in other prefectures and counties. They looked majestic and tall, and had a unique momentum.
Generally speaking, whether it is a prefectural city, a prefecture city, or a county city, there is only one city, and the rest are surrounded by rural areas.
As for prefectural cities, prefecture cities, and county towns, because they are surrounded by city walls, only the cities can be used for military defense.
Therefore, when wars are fought, they are fought around the city. And losing the city is equivalent to losing the surrounding villages as well.
Seeing a group of people coming outside the city gate, and the person in the middle was still wearing a fifth-grade official robe, the several city gate guards immediately cheered up. This must be the newly appointed Lord Governor, right?
As early as half a month ago, the city gate guards learned of this news, so they have been paying attention to this in the past few days.
But why did Lord Zhizhou walk into the city?
They didn't have time to think too much. When they saw the silver official badge on Lin Yuanqiu's waist, the guards quickly knelt on the ground and said, "I'd like to pay my respects to Lord Zhizhou!"
The voice was loud and inexplicably comfortable to listen to.
Lin Yuanqiu felt that as a guard, he must have such vitality.
"Get up!" Lin Yuanqiu smiled and nodded. He was about to praise them a few words, but his eyes were quickly attracted by the scene in front of him.
Not only him, but Lin Sanzhu, Lin Dazhu, Lin Erzhu, and Lin Yuanfeng were also stunned by the scene in front of them.
According to common sense, after entering the city gate, you should see bustling streets and densely populated residences.
But it's very different here.
Looking around, there were no buildings within a hundred meters. It looked like a farmer's drying field, empty.
Further back, there are streets and shops, but they are also sparsely built, without the prosperity that a few street shops should have.
Is this still a city in one state?
Why does it look like it's not even as good as Hengxi Town?
Compared with the surprise of the Lin family, Zhong Rong and his son were much more used to it.
In their opinion, the states and cities near the frontiers were not like this, and the Jingzhou where they stayed before was also like this.
However, compared to Jingzhou City, Yongning City is a little more deserted.
…
Chapter 187 Population
After Lin Yuanqiu and his party left, several city gate guards suddenly remembered that Lord Tong Jian sent someone over the day before yesterday to tell them to report to the government office as soon as possible when Lord Zhizhou arrived.
As a result, guards soon ran to the government office in the city.
Lin Yuanqiu, who was hit by the depressed scene in the city, had already forgotten about going to the Zhizhou Yamen Office. After walking through the street called Teng Si Lai, he led people to several adjacent streets. Then he took a carriage and visited all the places where the people lived in the city.
Finally, we came to the conclusion that the situation in the east and west of the city was not bad, and the population was relatively dense, while the north of the city was much more empty. As for the south of the city, apart from a few ponds and stretches of open space, the rest are just a few households that cannot be overstated.
Before coming here, Lin Yuanqiu had checked the area under the jurisdiction of Yongning Prefecture. Among them, Yongning City is fifty miles away. Such an area is relatively large among the scattered states in Da Jing Dynasty.
It is precisely because of the large area of Yongning City that it appears to be extremely sparsely populated when there are too few residents in the city.
Lin Yuanqiu's mood at this time can be described as cool, cool, cool.
As a modern man, he knows all too well the importance of population to urban economic development.
Because only a large population can drive production and consumption.
Just like the cloth, clothes, and snacks in the shop, if the population in the city is small, there will be fewer people buying it, and there will be no profit. Over time, there will naturally be fewer people selling it. This is why Lin Yuanqiu almost visited the entire Yongning City and found that there were not many shops in the city.
Without people doing business, the local government would have less tax revenue, and would naturally have no money to invest in various construction projects in the city.
In short, if the population cannot increase, it will be difficult to do anything.
Lin Sanzhu looked at his son's increasingly solemn expression and didn't understand what was going on for a moment. The same goes for everyone else accompanying him, including Zhong Rong and his son, who didn't know what Yuan Qiu was worried about.
In everyone's opinion, except for the fact that there are fewer houses and older houses in Yongning City, nothing else seems to be wrong.
As for the fact that there are not many residents in the city, Lin Dazhu and the others think it's good. Don't they all say that more people mean more right and wrong? It's great to have it so clean and refreshing now, and it's not tiring to manage.
"Go to the government office!" Lin Yuanqiu didn't explain much. After getting on the carriage, he asked the driver to go to the government office.
Lin Yuanqiu hasn't figured it out yet. He plans to complete the handover of office first and then think about it.
Just take it as it comes and take your time.
On the side of the state government office, Yan Tongzhi, He Tongpan, and Messenger Ge had been waiting for more than an hour. Their stomachs were almost full of tea, and they stretched their necks to look out the door. Back.
Among the three, the most anxious one is probably Ge Envoy. After staying in Yongning City for almost half a month, he has long wanted to return to the capital.
After the Holy Spirit issued the appointment letters for the officials who were sent abroad, they and the envoys left the capital that day and went to the places where the officials were assigned. He was unlucky and was assigned to the northern part of the Great Wall. Just being on the road alone made him travel for a month. After arriving here, because he was worried about the safety outside the city, Messenger Ge did not stay at the inn outside the city, but spent his own money to stay at an inn in the city.
It is said that it is money paid out of one's own pocket. It is definitely money paid out of one's own pocket. Messenger Ge can swear that. As for the subsidies from the state government office, not to mention that Messenger Ge didn't have this idea, even if he did, he would kill it severely. It's not that Messenger Ge is so noble, but that he really can't open his mouth, otherwise he will feel guilty like grabbing a handful of rice from a beggar's pocket.
Isn't it just a beggar's pocket? Messenger Ge thought that he had traveled to many government offices all over the country, but he had never seen such a "clean" government office.
Take this Cambodian room as an example. Originally, an office like this that was responsible for the exchange of letters would have at least a few desks, bookshelves, and cabinets. But here it is better, except for a long table. , four armchairs, yes, and a bookshelf in the corner over there, but nothing else. And just now Ambassador Ge also saw it. Just after they came in, the few scribes who were working here retreated outside.
Obviously, there were not enough chairs to sit on, so we had to make room for them.
So, how poor a yamen can be to be so frugal.
Thinking of this, Messenger Ge looked at Master Yan and Master He in front of him. The two people, who are already at the age where they knew their destiny, are now full of hair. Looking at their stretched brows, it is obvious that they want to live in peace until they reach officialdom.
It is not easy to be an official in the north, especially in a remote and remote state city like this. Not only is there no money to be made, it is also very dangerous.
